ShimmyT Was Here

Well my goal for next year amongst continuing to grow, technically, spirtually, mentally, and physically as well as being a better husband, friend, and brother is to run 500 miles in 2009. and you can track my progress here:

I figure if I average about 42 miles a month all year long I should be able to make it. If you’re counting at home I need to do 2 miles 4 times a week or start bumping up my distances which I want to do anyway.

Well still on holiday break and I’m back in the office. Although this part of the job I really love. Not so much the politics of the position but the actual technical work I get to do is absolutely wonderful. Some things I’m doing today, getting one of our districts network setup in VMware, and also finding some nice tools to create virtual floppies. Still looking for something good though. Also the new version for FastSCP is great as well, works a lot better then their previous version.

Also if you’re running VMware ESX on multiple hosts and you’re looking for a free monitoring solution please check out Veeam’s Monitor free solution. Excellent little app, that I will be reviewing soon.

Well as you can tell, the site has been changed around a lil bit. First most recent comments on the side (yay) then all of my Nike+ data. I’ve also got a tag cloud going (bigger items are things I talk about more), and all of my latest tweets (I’m using twitter a lot more now). Let me know what you think

I think it’s time for a site redesign, I have a lot of crap on the sidebar now so over the next few days I’ll be playing with themes I think.

Since I was asked about how the running was coming and wether or not people could track me on the sidebar there you’ll notice my little Nike+ guy. He motivates me, and plus you’ll see when I don’t run for a while he’ll get all lazy and start playing video games and stuff. You can see how my training and stuff is going from there as well. I’m still looking for a way to put up my challenge info too.

In my ever expandng search for fne spirits I set off on a searh for some scotch that my VMware trainer recommended. The name of the brand is Glenrothes. I thought it would be harder to find, but turns out my local Holiday Market carries it. Price wasn’t too extravagant, about what youd expect for a nicer bottle of scotch.

Now the only scotch I have to compare this to is a bottle of Chivas Regal 18 R.O. (thanks H). The bottle of Glenrothes  I purchased was the 1991 Speyside Single Malt. I was expecting there to be major differences but damn I didn’t think they would be that great. So starters when you open the bottle it’s got a sweet smell, not like the Chivas but sweet none the less. It also has a woody smell which I’m guessing is from the casks that they keep it in for all of those years. It’s got a mild sweet taste, with a very straightforward kind of feel where as the Chivas has a bunch of different flavors. It doesn’t burn coming in or going down which is also a plus. Does give you a nice warm feeling all over after you finish the glass though.

Is it a keeper hell yes. I’ll probably start saving up for the 1984 bottle now too. This has also piqued my interest for other single malt scotches. Other things happening now, I’m finally on the last episode of Mad Men season 1. Such a good damn show. Looking forward to getting Season 2 in HD. One last thing I think this bottle of scotch is going to be going fast.

Well the plan today was to go to training, then go running afterwords. Unfortunately we got hit with about 8 or 9 inches of snow. I was only out there shoveling for maybe 30 min tops and now I feel exausted. I don’t think I’ll be running today. I guess I’ll have to make up for it tomorrow. Maybe I should get up and see if I can find myself this bottle of scotch that my instructor recommended for me: http://www.theglenrothes.com/ looks intriguing.

Well my wonderful wife got me an early non important birthday present. I’ve got myself a nifty iPod Touch 16GB with a Nike+ iPod sensor. Now I can train more with Shaun and he can keep on my ass more. Also signed up on www.mapmyrun.com (shimmyt) and on the nikeplus (ShimmyT23) site.